linux-kernel - Re: KGTP (Linux Kernel debugger and tracer) 20110405 release

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Message-ID: <1302024458.2225.1350.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:27:38 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Hui Zhu <teawater@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@...csson.com>,
	Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@...il.com>,
	Steven <mqyoung@...il.com>, colyli@...il.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: KGTP (Linux Kernel debugger and tracer) 20110405 release

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 19:59 +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
> KGTP is a realtime and lightweight Linux Kernel GDB debugger and
> tracer that use Kprobe.
> 
> It make Linux Kernel supply a GDB remote debug interface. Then GDB in
> current machine or remote machine(see "Make GDB connect to gtp") can
> debug Linux through GDB tracepoint without stop the Linux Kernel.
> And even if the board doesn't have GDB on it and doesn't have
> interface for remote debug. It can debug the Linux Kernel use offline
> debug (See "Offline debug"). 

So this leaves me wondering how this is different from the existing
KGDB, if its different why its not reusing/extending the existing
infrastructure.


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